International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System Book

Introduction 1. A brief overview of the Olympic System 1.1 The established actors 1.2 The new actors 1.3 The regulators 2. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) 2.1 The IOC and its members 2.2 The IOC Administration 2.3 The economics of the IOC 3. The National Olympic Committees (NOCs) 3.1 NOC recognition 3.2 NOC missions 3.3 Olympic Solidarity 4. The International Sports Federations (IFs) 4.1 IF recognition 4.2 IF missions 4.3 The General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) 5. The Olympic Games and their Organising Committees 5.1 Brief overview of the Olympic Summer and Winter Games 5.2 Candidatures and elections of Olympic Host Cities 5.3 The Organising Committees of the Olympic Games (OCOGs) 5.4 The gigantism of the Olympic Games 5.5 The future of the Games 6. Governments and the Olympic System 6.1 The IOC and Switzerland 6.2 The Olympic System and the United Nations System 6.3 Europe and sport 6.4 Towards a new legal framework for the Olympic System? 7. The Regulators 7.1 The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) 7.2 The World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) 7.3 The IOC Ethics Commission Olympic governance: some conclusions